Photo & Video TR: iPod Stress Reliever

[Token Yankee Guy]

For the past few days, my 4th generation ipod has been giving me a lot of problems. Problems like not playing songs and simply locking up, requiring me to restart the ipod and try to play the song again. Tonight, itunes wasn't able to connect to the ipod and when I tried playing something, the ipod wouldn't list any songs. It seemed like my hard drive. Probably from the numerous times I've hit the thing to get the hard drive to kick back into gear.

 

Well. this was pretty much the last straw, as you'll see in this video my friend Nick filmed for me.

 

Note: Video contains me swearing one word, so this is PG-13 and was pre-approved before posting.

 

Now onto the photos

 

Hmmm, I wonder what that piece goes to

 

protective hard drive casing?

 

Something you'd expect to get when the ipod falls at least 4 floors

 

oops, the backing fell right off on impact

 

you can glue that back on....

 

That let's the hard drive breath so it doesn't overheat. Typical apple design

 

again, those hard drive shards can be glued back together. Hey, I think that's one of my reel big fish songs on that piece. That one, the one next to that other one, don't you see it?

 

Another piece of technology feels the wrath of my anger.

[CoasterFanatic]

As my parents would have said ...

 

I hope you enjoy the radio

[DarkStitch626]

I think it felt the wrath of the collapsing bed accident..

[Angry_Gumball]

Is it me or are the more current iPods screwing up like crazy? I'm glad that I havent upgraded my 3rd Gen iPod...it's still running like new except the battery's lifespan, which I can replace real fast.

[pvcoasterguy]

^ Hmm... I don't know all the iPod 'generations', but here's my experience with them.

 

My Mini worked okay... but then it started having silly problems like not allowing me to play purchased songs. To this date it still works, but its battery life has been terrible since I got it. It lasts less that 20 minutes now, and it didn't last long after the day I got it. I didn't feel like spending a crapload of money to get the battery replaced, and instead bought a new Nano.

 

My Nano (first issue), however, has worked perfectly this entire time. No problems whatsoever, and the battery still has the life that it originally had... no complaints.

[Token Yankee Guy]

^ Hmm... I don't know all the iPod 'generations', but here's my experience with them.

 

My Mini worked okay... but then it started having silly problems like not allowing me to play purchased songs. To this date it still works, but its battery life has been terrible since I got it. It lasts less that 20 minutes now, and it didn't last long after the day I got it. I didn't feel like spending a crapload of money to get the battery replaced, and instead bought a new Nano.

 

My Nano (first issue), however, has worked perfectly this entire time. No problems whatsoever, and the battery still has the life that it originally had... no complaints.

 

You know your mini should have had a year warrenty on it. You could have sent it back to get it replaced.

 

oh, quick update. i went to best buy this morning and I invested in a 30GB iPod video for $249

My new one next to my old one which will act like a deterent against ipod problems. Like what I did with my shot motherboard

[Homer]

Non-peeve: I love stuff being destroyed.

Peeve: You invested in another iPod, video formats are a b***h, I would have bought a Creative Zen Vision:M for the same amount of dough with the same space. Although, the Pod is a LOT more fashionable.